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. 2024 Aug;40(7):1420-1424.
doi: 10.12669/pjms.40.7.7875.

Effects of psychological support intervention on patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy

Ce Wang  1 , Xiaohui Liu  2 , Yanhong Li  3 , Dongxue Liu  4 , Litao Yang  5 , Yue Wang  6
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Effects of psychological support intervention on patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy

Ce Wang et al. Pak J Med Sci. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

Objective: To find out the effects of psychological support intervention on patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy.

Methods: This was a retrospective study. Sixty six patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma who received radiotherapy in the Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University from March 2021 to March 2022 were included and randomly divided into the observation group and the control group, with 33 cases in each group. Patients in the control group were given conventional care measures, while those in the observation group were given psychological support intervention on top of conventional care measures. The nursing effects between the two groups were compared.

Results: After the intervention, the psychological resilience score of the observation group was significantly higher than that of the control group, with a statistically significant difference (P<0.05). The psychological resilience scores after the intervention were significantly higher in the observation group than before the intervention, and those in the control group were higher than before the intervention, with a statistically significant difference(P<0.05). The overall health score of quality of life in the observation group was significantly higher than that in the control group after the intervention, with a statistically significant difference(P<0.05). Moreover, the skin reaction in the observation group after radiotherapy was significantly better than that of the control group (P<0.01).

Conclusion: Psychological support intervention is an effective means to treat patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which results in various benefits such as improving patients' mental resilience and quality of life and reducing the incidence of adverse reactions after radiotherapy.

Keywords: Nasopharyngeal tumor; Psychological support intervention; QLQ-C30 score; Quality of life; RTOG grading; Skin reaction.

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